Latin Tongue-twisters

Tongue-twisters in many languages, including Latin, but not Greek: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm

Oh… there is Greek, but I have no idea whether it is Classical or Modern or if they even distinguished between the two.

Oi! Where is my brain?! It must be Old Greek because there was a quote by Demosthenes.

Number 7(Latin) is the famous “Tete roro mama nunu dada tete lala tete.”

Which language is that for Mingshey?

I like this one in English: "I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish. "
That will test your fluency (and memory) :slight_smile:

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Oi! Where is my brain?! It must be Old Greek because there was a quote by Demonsthenes.
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I see some modern phonemes and prepositions. So classical and modern greek are mixed with no distinction there, I would say.

Number 26(Greek :slight_smile:) sounds like this in modern pronunciation:

i spani ispani is pani ispaniko, is paniko ispaniko ezografoon.

Neat site! I love tongue twisters…I did pretty well on the wish to wish one, but some of the others are HARD! ;D

Keesa

Some of the evil ones are designed to make you swear. My great-grandmother taught me this one:

I slit a sheet
A sheet I slit
Upon a slitted sheet I sit

Say it three times :slight_smile:

But don’t say it three times fast out loud! :stuck_out_tongue:

Keesa